An Archive of Development

2020 ◽  
Vol 40 (3) ◽  
pp. 541-564
Author(s):  
Ateya Khorakiwala
Keyword(s):  
Construction Projects ◽  
Road Construction ◽  
Developmental State ◽  
Documentary Films ◽  
Road Infrastructure ◽  
Indian State ◽  
Spatial Narrative ◽  
Propaganda Films ◽  
Architectural Knowledge

Abstract This article argues that a fantasy of Indian road infrastructure was archived in official documentary films. It analyzes two 1960s road construction projects through three corresponding Films Division of India documentaries, which represented India's northern borders. These show how the playfulness of film, the unruliness of infrastructure, and the precariousness of the border and its imaginary have meant that even propaganda films with set narratives erupted with an aesthetics of pleasure and violence. Replete with such dramatic signifiers, the films offer a psychic archive of the developmental state. The projective capacity of architectural knowledge enables this article to speculate on this archive of fantasy and thus interrogate infrastructure, modernization, and development, not as normative categories, but as aesthetic techniques. These produced for the Indian state a spatial narrative of fraught borders contiguous with metropoles, a condition that created a new tyranny of proximity.

scholarly journals ANALISA SKALA PRIORITAS PROYEK PEMBANGUNAN JALAN DI KABUPATEN ACEH JAYA

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (4) ◽  
pp. 22-29
Author(s):  
Rahmad Fuadi ◽  
Muhammad Isya ◽  
Renni Anggraini
Keyword(s):  
Construction Projects ◽  
Development Program ◽  
Secondary Data ◽  
Road Construction ◽  
Social Aspect ◽  
Infrastructure Development ◽  
Environmental Aspect ◽  
Road Infrastructure ◽  
Road Development ◽  
Aspect Social

The limited funding of the Aceh Jaya regency government for development, including the construction of road infrastructure and the way in which road construction projects are still inaccurate and the process of budgeting unproportional work package by the Aceh Jaya regency government itself has not been able to fully meet the needs of road development in Aceh Jaya. Therefore, the need for priority scale that can be used as the basis of consideration in the process of development of road infrastructure development program. The purpose of this study is to determine the priority order of several road infrastructure development projects in Aceh Jaya regency by selecting or considering the appropriate criteria and according to development condition in Aceh Jaya regency using Multi Criteria Analysis (MCA) method. The weight of each criterion was calculated based on an assessment of the importance between the criteria obtained by interviewing stakeholders in Aceh Jaya regency government, while the alternative road performance score was obtained by analyzing and calculating the scale of the assessment quantitatively against each criterion based on secondary data obtained from related offices. Selected criteria are accessibility, environmental aspect, area development aspect, social aspect and development cost. Social aspect criteria get the highest weight of 0.279, it can be interpreted that social aspect is the main consideration in determining priority of road development in Aceh Jaya regency, because social aspect see influence of economic growth and social welfare of society from development of road infrastructure.  Based on the consideration of these criteria, the order of priority scale of road construction project in Aceh Jaya regency, where road in Calang city, Krueng Sabee sub-district is the first priority with score value 6,72.

scholarly journals Identification of geodetic risk factors occurring at the construction project preparation stage

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 14-17 ◽  
Author(s):  
Magdalena Kowacka ◽  
Dariusz Skorupka ◽  
Artur Duchaczek ◽  
Paweł Zagrodnik
Keyword(s):  
Risk Factors ◽  
Construction Projects ◽  
Expert Knowledge ◽  
Construction Project ◽  
Road Construction ◽  
Construction Process ◽  
The Road ◽  
Initial Stage ◽  
Preparation Stage

AbstractThe work contains information on the implementation of surveying works in the road construction process. The aim of the research was to identify geodetic risk factors occurring at the stage of preparation of a construction project, the presence of which can greatly disrupt the undertaking such as the road construction. The research was carried out on the basis of expert knowledge, documentation obtained from various road construction projects and the analysis of disturbances at the initial stage of works.

scholarly journals Earthwork Planning and Visualisation of Time-Location Information in Road Construction Projects

2016 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 75
Author(s):  
R. K. Shah
Keyword(s):  
Construction Projects ◽  
Progress Monitoring ◽  
Road Construction ◽  
Resource Planning ◽  
Automatic Generation ◽  
Prototype Model ◽  
Accurate Information ◽  
Planning And Scheduling ◽  
Time Space ◽  
College Of Engineering

<p>Accurate information of locations from visual aspect is vital for efficient resource planning and managing the workspace conflicts in the earthwork operations, which are missing in the existing linear schedules. Hence, the construction managers have to depend on the subjective decisions and intangible imagining for resources allocation, workspace conflicts and location-based progress monitoring in the earthwork projects. This has caused uncertainties in planning and scheduling of earthworks, and consequently delays and cost overruns of the projects. To overcome these issues, a framework of computer based prototype model was developed using the theory of location-based planning. This paper focuses on the case study experiments to demonstrate the functions of the model, which includes automatic generation of location-based earthwork schedules and visualisation of cut-fill locations on a weekly basis. The experiment results confirmed the model’s capability in identifying precise weekly locations of cut-fill and also visualising the time-space conflicts at the earthwork projects. Hence, the paper concludes that the model is a useful decision supporting tool to improve site productivity and reduce production cost of earthworks in the construction projects like roads and railways. </p><p><em>Journal of Advanced College of Engineering and Management, Vol. 1, 2015</em>, pp. 75-84</p>

scholarly journals Performance of soft clay stabilized with sand columns treated by silica fume

2018 ◽  
Vol 162 ◽  
pp. 01007
Author(s):  
Zeena Samueel ◽  
Hussein Karim ◽  
Mohammed Mohammed
Keyword(s):  
Silica Fume ◽  
Carrying Capacity ◽  
Construction Projects ◽  
Ground Improvement ◽  
Soft Clay ◽  
Road Construction ◽  
Reduction Ratio ◽  
Area Replacement Ratio ◽  
Second Category ◽  
Improvement Ratio

In many road construction projects, if weak soil exists, then uncontrollable settlement and critical load carrying capacity are major difficult problems to the safety and serviceability of roads in these areas. Thus ground improvement is essential to achieve the required level of performance. The paper presents results of the tests of four categories. First category was performed on saturated soft bed of clay without any treatment, the second category shed light on the improvement achieved in loading carrying capacity and settlement as a result of reinforcing with conventional sand columns at area replacement ratio = 0.196. The third set investigates the bed reinforced by sand columns stabilized with dry silica fume at different percentages (3, 5 and 7%) and the fourth set investigates the behavior of sand columns treated with slurry silica fume at two percentages (10 and 12%). All sand columns models were constructed at (R.D= 60%). Model tests were performed on bed of saturated soil prepared at undrained shear strength between 16-20 kPa for all models. For all cases, the model test was loaded gradually by stress increments up to failure. Stress deformation measurements are recorded and analyzed in terms of bearing improvement ratio and settlement reduction ratio. Optimum results were indicated from soil treated with sand columns stabilized with 7% dry silica fume at medium state reflecting the highest bearing improvement ratio (3.04) and the settlement reduction ratio (0.09) after 7 days curing. While soil treated with sand columns stabilized with 10% slurry silica fume provided higher bearing improvement ratio 3.13 with lower settlement reduction ratio of 0.57 after 7-days curing.

scholarly journals Delay and cost overrun in road construction projects in Jordan

2015 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 288 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nabil Al-Hazim ◽  
Zaydoun Abusalem
Keyword(s):  
Construction Projects ◽  
Road Construction ◽  
Weather Conditions ◽  
Public Works ◽  
Fiscal Year ◽  
Cost Overrun ◽  
Construction Time ◽  
Change Orders ◽  
Critical Problems ◽  
The Cost

This study aims to identify the most important factors that cause delay in road construction projects in Jordan, which results in cost and time overrun allocated for this type of engineering projects and cause critical problems for both the developer and the contractor. The gap between the cost at completion and that originally estimated, known as cost overrun, can be regarded as one of the most important parameters reflecting the success of projects. In the public sector, money spent on project change orders results in increased construction time which in return reduces the number and size of the projects that can be completed during any given fiscal year. To achieve this goal, the documents and the final reports for several sample projects implemented over the years 2000 to 2008 were analyzed. All the projects were administered by the same organization taken from Jordan Ministry of Rural and Public Works. The results of this study can assist highway officials in their design, planning, scheduling and projects completions so that necessary actions can be taken to control these overruns in future projects. The study showed that 19 factors might cause delays of road construction projects as defined through a detailed literature review. The analysis of the study indicated that the top causes affecting time and cost overrun in road construction projects in Jordan are Terrain and Weather conditions.

scholarly journals Risk of Snake Entanglement Is Affected by Installation Method of Erosion Control Blankets

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 273-278 ◽  
Author(s):  
Krista J. Ward ◽  
Kasey L. Jobe ◽  
Nicholas C. Schiwitz ◽  
Daniel Saenz ◽  
Christopher M. Schalk
Keyword(s):  
Soil Loss ◽  
Construction Projects ◽  
Road Construction ◽  
Erosion Control ◽  
Decision Makers ◽  
Experimental Setting ◽  
Control Product ◽  
Promote Plant Growth ◽  
Edge Treatment ◽  
Pass Through

Abstract At the conclusion of road construction projects, an erosion control product (e.g., blankets, spray mulch) is installed to reduce soil loss and promote plant growth. Wildlife, such as snakes (suborder Serpentes), are prone to entanglement in erosion control blankets (ECBs) that contain polypropylene mesh with fused apertures. Previous reports have noted that the occurrences of entanglements are not uniform in their distribution across an ECB, but primarily occur where the edge of the mesh is exposed. We conducted an experiment to determine if modification to the installation methods of ECBs affects the likelihood of snake entanglement. We conducted entanglement trials to compare the likelihood of snake entanglement between two treatments: 1) exposed ECB edge (i.e., perimeter) and 2) buried ECB edge. Snakes were less likely to attempt to pass through the mesh on the buried edge treatment and all entanglements occurred on the exposed edge treatment. These results provide support that modification to the installation methods reduces snake entanglement in ECBs in some settings. However, we conducted our study in an experimental setting, and it should be evaluated under natural field conditions. This research can be used to inform several parties including contractors, habitat managers, and agency decision makers on additional steps that can be taken for products that fit their application needs to minimize risks to wildlife.

scholarly journals ANALYSIS INFLUENCE OF CEMENT OF THE ASPHALT PAVEMENT DEMOLITION MATERIAL ON ROADS SEMARANG-DEMAK-INDONESIA

2017 ◽  
pp. 73-78
Author(s):  
P. Pratikso ◽  
A. Purwanto ◽  
S. Sudarno
Keyword(s):  
Compressive Strength ◽  
Technology Development ◽  
Cement Content ◽  
Asphalt Pavement ◽  
Construction Material ◽  
Road Construction ◽  
Dry Weight ◽  
Natural Material ◽  
Road Infrastructure ◽  
Asphalt Cement

Natural resources such as natural material such as stone, sand, asphalt which has long been used by humans for road construction because of the limited experience any material taken will collide with the preservation of the environment so that the construction work of road infrastructure obstacles and ultimately can lead to the work stalled road infrastructure. To overcome these problems it is necessary to the implementation of the technology development of road infrastructure by using recycled (recycling). The purpose of this study is to determine levels of cement that can be used for the top layer foundation (base course) with recycled materials mixed asphalt cement / Cement Treated Recycling Base (CTRB) on road rehabilitation Semarang - Demak and to determine the uncondifined compressive strength that occurs so that the material can be reused as construction material pavement layer. This study uses an experimental method in the laboratory with a cylindrical specimen diameter of 7 cm height of 14 cm made of asphalt pavement scratching Semarang-Demak roads with cement content variation 0%, 1.5%, 3%, 4.5%, 6% and 7.5% is used for testing the uncondifined compressive strength / (UCS) at the age of 7 days, 21 days, 14 days and 28 days. The results show that the addition of cement content will increase the value of the dry weight insignificantly, but will rise UCS value significantly and utilization of scratching asphalt cement with added material from these laboratory experiments can increase the carrying capacity CTRB construction. Levels of cement that meets the requirements of Unconfined Compressive Strength (UCS) for the construction of Cement Treated Recycling Base (CTRB) is between 6% to 7.5%. According to the results of research it is economically to used cement content at average of 6.75% for road rehabilitation works Semarang - Demak has met the required UCS test.

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